Context

I think there are three main pieces/types of media that influenced my outcome.

First and foremost are anime AMVs in general. They are essentially mashups of scenes from one or more works that are set (well-timed) to a piece of music. Of course, this is exactly what I have created.

Along the same lines, next is the genre of Vines that are basically AMVs, but shortened to 6 seconds long. These generate a lot of views (sometimes millions), so I actually thought about these before full-length AMVs when confronted with the topic of "viral content".

Finally, as mentioned in the proposal, I had thought about the "run scene" from Millennium Actress. In this scene, we follow the main character, the actress Chiyoko, though a montage of films she has starred in, which symbolizes her journey as she continuously tries to chase after a man she met as a child. Though I guess Chiyoko doesn't actually do any running in this scene (maybe I remembered wrong, or watched the wrong scene on youtube -- but the background song is called "Run" for sure...), this influence is still reflected through my video as we move through several Ghibli films.